Dona J. Hickey

Figures of Thought for College Writers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 659
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 166mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9781559346528
• ISBN-10: 1559346523
• Artikelnr.: 21002946

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. WHAT IS A FIGURE OF THOUGHT? Introduction to Metaphor
What Is Metaphor?
Metaphor Awareness Is Language Awareness
Metaphor and College Reading and Writing
Familiar Categories of Metaphor
How Metaphor Structures Ordinary Thought and Language
What Does Seeing and Understanding Metaphor Have to Do with Reading and Writing?
Its a Story: Metaphor in Academic Discourse
How to Read for Metaphor: The Principles Modeled
Marjorie Rosens New Face, New Body, New Self
A Practice Reading: Applying the Principles Yourself
Robert J. Sternberg, Love Is a Story
2. A WRITING LIFE James D. Houston, A Writers Sense of Place
Natalie Goldberg, Composting
David Huddle, The Writing Habit
Peter Elbow, How to Get Power through Voice
Bonnie Friedman, Anorexia of Language: Why We Cant Write
Annie Lamott, Shitty First Drafts
Natalie Rachel Singer, Nonfiction in First Person, Without Apology
Alan Cheuse, Writing It Down For James: Some Thoughts on Reading Towards the Millennium
Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet
3. NAMING AND CLAIMING
Kip Thorne, Black Hole Birth John Boslaugh, Black Hole Encounter
Chet Raymo, The Ink of Night
Richard Conniff, Whats in a Name? Sometimes More Than Meets the Eye
Reg Saner, Naming Nature
Louise Erdrich, Birth
Itabari Njeri, Whats in a Name?
Ursula Le Guin, The Rule of Names
Khuankaew Anantachart, Pee Tong LuengVictims of the Name [student essay]
Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet
4. ILLNESS AND HEALTH Sharon Begley et al., Commandos of Viral Combat
Richard Preston, Back in the Hot Zone
Paul Farmer and Arthur Keinman, AIDS as Human Suffering
Susan Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors
Marjorie Gross, Cancer Becomes Me
Marsha Norman, Say Amen to Somebody
Kat Duff, Towards an Ecology of Illness
Kay Redfield Jamison, Speaking of Madness and A Life in Moods
Susanna Kayson, Mind vs. Brain
Cindy Feltner, Illness as a Result of Destruction [student essay]
Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet
5. MIND AND BODY Nicholson Baker, Changes of Mind
C. S. Lewis, Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare
Alan Lightman, Prologue and 24 April 1905
John Updike, The Female Body
Margaret Atwood, The Female Body
Jill Dubisch, You are What You Eat
Carol Kloss, Fat
Joseph Epstein, A Fat Man Struggles to Get Out
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Naked Truth about Fitness
Marjorie Rosen, New Face, New Body, New Self
Aisling Kerins, A Metaphors Ability to Open the Door to Lacrosse [student essay]
Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet
6. MINDS AND MACHINES Chet Raymo, The Revenge of Yokyoks
James Bailey et al., Our Machines, Ourselves
Donald Norman, Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles
Ellen Ullman, Getting Close to the Machine
John Lawler, Metaphors We Compute By
Ted Wade, A Perplexatron Asks an AllKnowaBot
Esther Dyson, If You Dont Love It, Leave It
Carolyn Guyer, Along the Estuary
Nestor Sironi, Correspondence with Author and Worlds [student essay]
Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet
7. WAR AND MORE WAR Paul Fussell, The Real War 1939-45
Hatsuho Naito, My Body Will Collapse Like a Falling Cherry Blossom
Edward Park, I Moved Far Away from Soaring IdealsI Became a Warrior
Tobias Wolff, Close Calls
Robert Olen Butler, Crickets
George Bush, The Liberation of Kuwait Has Begun
Saddam Hussein, The Mother of All Battles
Carol Cohn, Wars, Wimps, and Women
Bella English, When Words Go to War
Barbara Ehrenreich, Three Cases of War Worship
Larina Orlando, Malicious Metaphor [student essay]
Kimberly Turner, The Power of the Rhetoric of War in Butlers Crickets [student essay]
Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet
8. GAMES AND NOT GAMES James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Bradd Shore, Loading the Bases
Margaret Visser, Crossword Puzzles
John McPhee, The Search for Marvin Gardens
Bright Pegeen Kelly, Song
Joy Williams, The Killing Game
Milan Kundera, The Hitchhiking Game
Kiri Salak, Boneyard Stretch
Yukiko Oka, BaseballA Mirror of Japanese Culture [student essay]
Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet
Author and Title Index lness as a Result of Destruction [student essay]
Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet
5. MIND AND BODY Nicholson Baker, Changes of Mind
C. S. Lewis, Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare
Alan Lightman, Prologue and 24 April 1905
John Updike, The Female Body
Margaret Atwood, The Female Body
Jill Dubisch, You are What You Eat
Carol Kloss, Fat
Joseph Epstein, A Fat Man Struggles to Get Out
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Naked Truth about Fitness
Marjorie Rosen, New Face, New Body, New Self
Aisling Kerins, A Metaphors Ability to Open the Door to Lacrosse [student essay]
Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet
6. MINDS AND MACHINES Chet Raymo, The Revenge of Yokyoks
James Bailey et al., Our Machines, Ourselves
Donald Norman, Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles
Ellen Ullman, Getting Close to the Machine
John Lawler, Metaphors We Compute By
Ted Wade, A Perplexatron Asks an AllKnowaBot
Esther Dyson, If You Dont Love It, Leave It
Carolyn Guyer, Along the Estuary
Nestor Sironi, Correspondence with Author and Worlds [student essay]
Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet
7. WAR AND MORE WAR Paul Fussell, The Real War 1939-45
Hatsuho Naito, My Body Will Collapse Like a Falling Cherry Blossom
Edward Park, I Moved Far Away from Soaring IdealsI Became a Warrior
Tobias Wolff, Close Calls
Robert Olen Butler, Crickets
George Bush, The Liberation of Kuwait Has Begun
Saddam Hussein, The Mother of All Battles
Carol Cohn, Wars, Wimps, and Women
Bella English, When Words Go to War
Barbara Ehrenreich, Three Cases of War Worship
Larina Orlando, Malicious Metaphor [student essay]
Kimberly Turner, The Power of the Rhetoric of War in Butlers Crickets [student essay]
Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet
8. GAMES AND NOT GAMES James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Bradd Shore, Loading the Bases
Margaret Visser, Crossword Puzzles
John McPhee, The Search for Marvin Gardens
Bright Pegeen Kelly, Song
Joy Williams, The Killing Game
Milan Kundera, The Hitchhiking Game
Kiri Salak, Boneyard Stretch
Yukiko Oka, BaseballA Mirror of Japanese Culture [student essay]
Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet
Author and Title Index